Braintree Girl: August 21st

Egg Rock

Our first stop was Egg Rock. I started with only 2400 psi. Plus the new air gauge I installed yesterday had a huge leak. I started down the down line. I needed to take it slow since I didn't take any sudafed. My ears cleared pretty easy so I set off to find some lobsters.

Pete went in right after me with his new toy. A sea-doo scooter. I could hear him scooting around as I searched for lobsters. The sea-doo has a high pitched noise when it runs.

I followed a rift until it ran out then i headed up the towards shore. I pulled out about 5/6 lobsters with eggs. I think I was in the maternity ward. Found a bunch of notches that i swam along and saw jonah crabs, green crabs and small fish. I turned a corner of one notch and ran into a tautog. We both were surprised. The tautog was beautiful.

I was getting floaty so I knew I had less than 1,000 psi in the tank. I headed deeper so I wouldn't have to fight to stay down. I finally caught a lobster that didn't have eggs or a notch. It was just legal so it is somewhere around 6 to 8 years old.

The water temperature was colder than yesterday but not too cold. I'm still wearing my 5 finger mitts. I reached about 30 ft. The lobsters like to hang out in about 25 ft of water so i like to hang there too.

Air was low, under 500 psi so I decided to go back to the boat.

Kettle Island

Dive 24 was at Kettle Island. i hoped to find lobzilla again but first I wanted to use the sea-doo. The battery was weakening so I didn't have much time.

Fred and I went down and found a spot where he could film me using the sea-doo. We did about 5 to 6 takes before the battery died. Brought it back to the boat and got my bag and poker.

I went back down the downline and found lots of lobsters. Unfortunately it was another maternity ward. Swam towards shore since I was in about 30 ft of water. As I rounded one rock I spotted lobzilla. This one looked bigger than the one Laurent filmed. I went back to the boat to get Fred's' camera. I wanted to film it.

I set up the shot. the camera on the sand looking into the hole the lobster had made in the sand by a rock. It wasn't afraid, it just laid there looking at me. As the camera was filming a tiny lobster, a baby, fell down the side of the rock and into the shot. I'm hoping it comes out.

Dives 24
Lobster 14